· Private foundation
The Mellor Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brigham Young University | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,661 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,315 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,178 |
| Utah Valley University | $5,000 |
| Alpine School District Foundation | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,575 |
| Eli & Hina Faleomavaega Foundation | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Sape Foundation | $1,250 |
| Caveman Rugby Club | $1,000 |
| Rise Up Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2025 · $118k
- TJTEAM JUDE FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $69k
- MHMENTAL HEALTH FOR HEROS2× · 2021–2022 · $64k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- EMEmpower Mali Schoolone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide athletic and academic opportunities for underprivileged youth.
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
To provide educaitonal services to students in the Salt Lake County area as a public charter school, to support education initiatives, and to help prepare students to be successful in life by developing healthy lifestyle habits abd by…
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
None
To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.
Our mission is to train develop and allow to compete student athletes while experiencing the cultural benefits of training and competing internationally and domestically.
The mission of the Weber School Foundation is to raise and provide funds to enhance educational goals and opportunities for students.
La Roca Futbol Club believes in developing and showcasing youth soccer players at all ages and levels of play, from local recreation leagues to the highest levels of competition in the state, regional and national platforms. Spanish for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanitarian Experience Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lehi Gridiron Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mellor Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.